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Brian Potter

Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics.

3 books on the record · 18 Jan 2025 – 18 Jan 2025 · @BrianPotter

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Form Follows Finance by Carol Willis

A great look at the economics of early skyscraper construction and its influence on aesthetics, with the only downside being that it mostly doesn't cover the late 20th century when modernism was taking hold.

on construction-physics.com · 18 Jan 2025

loved it

High Rise by Jerry Adler

This is the exact sort of book I love, narrative-ish nonfiction written by a journalist who nails both the prose and the factual details. High Rise tells the story of the construction of 1540 Broadway, mostly from the perspective of the developer Bruce Eichner.

on construction-physics.com · 18 Jan 2025

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.